Callaghan Court

Upon submitting your application, the Project Manager will contact you to confirm it has been received. The Project Manager will then reach out to the person responsible for your mental health support — this could be your social worker, doctor, or community nurse — who signed your application form.

You will be invited to Callaghan Court to view the flat and meet the staff. During this time, the Project Manager will work with your mental health support provider to ensure all necessary information is gathered before continuing with your application.

At this time the Project Manager will talk with the person who looks after your mental health to make sure that they have all the information we need before they meet with you to continue the application.

The information required includes: 

• TAF - Threshold Application Form –  Client
• PHF - Psychiatric History Form – Consultant Psychiatrist
• SHR - Social History Report – Social Worker
• Threshold Monitoring Form - Client
• Any additional Forms required at the discretion of Threshold’s Management i.e. Forensic, Probation, Occupational Therapy Assessment and/or Reports

NB. The assessment process will not proceed until all of the above information is received to facilitate a review of the application and a Risk Assessment taking place.

When the Project Manager meets with you, they will bring an assessment form with them. This will be filled in with your input, and it is to ensure that Callaghan Court can meet your needs and your expectations. 

The Project Manager will then look at your application against the eligibility criteria . Where there is more than one applicant they will consider who is in greater need of supported accommodation and who would benefit the most.

NB. The level of need will be influenced by an applicant’s housing status – that is, where they already live in their own home in the wider community, the applicant will be seen to have a lower level of housing need than someone who does not.  

If you are successful, the Project Manager will again contact you and the person who signed the application form offering you a place. At this time, using your assessment, you will help to draw up an initial support plan and this will be kept by you, as well as a copy on file.

You will be assigned a keyworker and this person will introduce themselves when you first arrive and will make sure that you settle in and know what to expect on a day to day basis.

If, for some reason, we are unable to offer you a place we will explain this to you and your referrer and will suggest another route of support if we can. 

Where there are two or more applicants for a place we must decide who should be offered that place. This is done by an admission panel and this panel’s members are:

• The Project Manager
• A member of the local Health and Social Services Trust

The panel will look at all applications in detail and place in order of priority those who are thought to be in greater need. For example, someone living in hospital may have priority over someone wishing to leave the family home. 

Points are given for each of the following areas:

• Need for accommodation 0 – 5 points, with 5 being the greatest
• Need for support 0 – 5 points, with 5 being the greatest
• Ability to use support 0 – 5 points, with 5 being the greatest

The person with the greatest number of points will be offered the place. Each decision will be recorded and the reason for the decision noted.